Red Mosquito

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

tragabigzanda wrote:I really enjoyed The Man In the High Castle.

durdencommatyler wrote:Finished the Bill Hodges trilogy... what should I read next? I'm thinking something tad heavier, more meaty. Maybe Toni Morrison?

wease wrote:Born to Run- Bruce Springsteen.

Monkey_Driven wrote:

wease wrote:Born to Run- Bruce Springsteen.

I'm hoping this will be under the Christmas tree. How is it?

A mind-bending novel in which an alternate history of 9/11 and its aftermath uncovers startling truths about America and the Middle East

11/9/2001: Christian fundamentalists hijack four jetliners. They fly two into the Tigris & Euphrates World Trade Towers in Baghdad, and a third into the Arab Defense Ministry in Riyadh. The fourth plane, believed to be bound for Mecca, is brought down by its passengers.

The United Arab States declares a War on Terror. Arabian and Persian troops invade the Eastern Seaboard and establish a Green Zone in Washington, D.C. . . .

Summer, 2009: Arab Homeland Security agent Mustafa al Baghdadi interrogates a captured suicide bomber. The prisoner claims that the world they are living in is a mirage--in the real world, America is a superpower, and the Arab states are just a collection of "backward third-world countries." A search of the bomber's apartment turns up a copy of "The New York Times," dated September 12, 2001, that appears to support his claim. Other captured terrorists have been telling the same story. The president wants answers, but Mustafa soon discovers he's not the only interested party.

The gangster Saddam Hussein is conducting his own investigation. And the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee--a war hero named Osama bin Laden--will stop at nothing to hide the truth. As Mustafa and his colleagues venture deeper into the unsettling world of terrorism, politics, and espionage, they are confronted with questions without any rational answers, and the terrifying possibility that their world is not what it seems.

Brett wrote:Still trying to work my way through Muddle Earth by John Brunner. I've set it down a couple of times to come back to it later, and now I'm far enough in that I don't want leave it unfinished. I like Hitchhiker's Guide and the Christopher Moore books that I've read, but it seems like any other humorous, absurd science fiction I try manages to have no coherent story in an attempt to be as bizarre as possible. I think this one might be finally settling down on that score, though.

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:is a knight of the seven kingdoms worth reading?

durdencommatyler wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:is a knight of the seven kingdoms worth reading?

Is Ready Player One?

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:is a knight of the seven kingdoms worth reading?

Is Ready Player One?

it was a fun read...nothing earth-shattering